Before a judge accepts the defendants guilty plea, the judge must perform a plea colloquy with the defendanta series of questions to defendants to ensure they are knowingly and voluntarily waiving their right to a jury trial.[236] Among those questions is some version of the following, which is constitutionally required in every state and federal system: Has anyone forced or threatened you to plead guilty, or offered you any promises other than whats contained in your plea agreement? To a number of interviewees, this felt disingenuous
The white-haired attorney, oratorical tricks forgotten for once, leaped up and, without a word to Smith, ran behind the sheriff to the county judges office, where Allred told him that Davidson had received Blacks order, and had sent a telegram to Smith (and to federal master Burnett, in Zapata) ordering them to halt their hearings
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